#cookie's stuff

[cookiecuttercritter]

Stop thinking your writing has to impress somebody it wasn’t written for. you aren’t going to force people with different tastes into loving your art.

Work at impressing the person you did write for: you. And be proud when you do.

[cookiecuttercritter]

"Everyone you've met thinks you want to sleep with them."

I'm an aroace nerd who stares at people's mouths

The last thing I want to do is give people the impression that I'm romantically interested in them

My friend's just told me that looking at people's lips is a sign you want to kiss to them

I've just told her I don't look at anything BUT people's lips

Eye contact is gross and uncomfortable. Where else am I supposed to look?

Due to sensory weirdness, all conversations are a game of me listening closely + watching your mouth to figure out what you're saying (masks have generally been non-conducive to this, but I do prefer not being diseased)

I can't always tell when people are being sarcastic

My friend -- she's great -- but bless her, she is frequently sarcastic. Sometimes she says things like, "Everyone you've met thinks you want to sleep with them," with a straight face.

So you see, NOTHING could have prepared me to process what she said.

[cookiecuttercritter]

for anyone who needs to hear it: give yourself permission to draw, write, paint, sing, dance, etc. create like there’s nothing stopping you. you can always revise later.

[cookiecuttercritter]

I’m really interested in like, casual superpowers 

I want characters whose eyes glow and it’s never really addressed

A friend shows up for lunch and you ask them how they got here, and they say ‘I flew,’ like it’s the most normal thing in the world, because it is. If you seem confused, they’ll explain, ‘What, you assumed I couldn’t fly?’

When Syndrome said ‘When everyone’s super, no one is,’ I mean like I want all the fun of magic and powers without any of the weird superiority complexes, savior complexes, or responsibility

[cookiecuttercritter]

Arrow behind the back?

I don’t think this pose is actually possible but 1) it was stuck in my head so I had to draw it and 2) I believe in the rule of cool

[cookiecuttercritter]

just saw an ice cream labeled, “normal cheesecake” flavor. extremely suspicious

[cookiecuttercritter]

Some Top Tier Character Tropes:

Parroting someone’s catchphrase, motto, or mantra ironically back to them at a crucial moment for maximum angst.

Using incredible powers for mundane things or refusing to use them at all because they make things “boring”.

Bonus: using said powers for everything BUT what they were meant for.

Dramatically collapsing onto things, for drama because you’re spent, OR for comedy, because it’s always a good time to collapse dramatically.

Being too ignorant or jaded to react appropriately to danger.

Bonus: overreacts to ridiculously small threat OR everyone knows it’s going down if and only when this character finally acknowledges the threat.

Soft, mostly harmless bean pushed to the breaking point and unleashing everything they’ve been holding back.